Wednesday, November 18, 2009

human life international congress


MIRI: The multi-billionaire dollar abortion industry is humanity's ultimate killing machine- every year an estimated 50 million babies were put to death globally just through surgical abortion.


A rough estimate of 250 million babies die annually through chemical abortion,” said the president of Human Life International Father Thomas Euteneuer.


He to this to reporters during a press conference prior to the 16th Human Life International Asia Pacific Congress on Faith, Life & Family yesterday.


Also present were the bishop of Miri, Bishop Anthony Lee, the executive director of HLI Asia Oceania Dr Ligaya Acosta, the director of Research and Training for HLI Dr Brian Clowes, the president of the Ovulation Method Research & Reference Centre Australia Kerry Bourke and the political secretary to the chief minister Robert Laing Anyie.


Abortion has been described by some writers and scholars as the “silent holocaust” because its victims are helpless against this killing machine made by man himself.


This is a global attack on Life, Marriage and Family and we in the pro-life movement describes this sinister assault on the sanctity of life as the culture of death. By definition, the culture of death is when a society legalises abortion, the acceptance of the killing of babies in the womb. Roughly, two-thirds of the world's population are living under this culture of death, where abortion is practise on demand. And this culture is fast spreading around the world. Basically, this culture of death western culture. America essentially export abortion,” said Tom, an American himself.


We are fighting against this culture of death that is corrupting everything it touches with the message of the culture of life. We got to tell people to have respect for life,” he added.


Euteneuer said this culture first started in communist Russia where the communist government legalised abortion in the 1920s. By 1955, Russia imposed this culture on the whole communist bloc and in the 1960s and early 1970s it has the domino effect on Europe.


There are a few countries that prohibit abortion, countries in Africa, Latin America. For example, El Salvador and Chile gives legal protection against abortion, disclosed Euteneuer.


Meanwhile, in his keynote address to more than 600 participants from 17 countries in the congress, Lee said the whole idea of contraception and abortion spread widely even among the christians.


We have a battle at hand-a life and death battle. You cannot live an ordinary life with dignity today without upholding the sanctity and sacredness of life. You cannot look at the whole situation with folded arms and do nothing because things are happening right under our nose,” said Lee.


Contempary society taught us that life begins at birth. In our pro-life activity we saw that this is entirely false. Life begins at conception and ends at natural death. The embryo in the mother's womb was just a lump of tissues, they say, it is not yet a human person until the soul is created. When is the soul created? At conception, we say. From the moment the embryo is formed, the soul is infused. As soon as the father's sperm penetrates the mother's egg a new human being is born. Science confirms this: the DNA of the father unites with the DNA of the mother to produce a new, different, distinctive DNA, having similar qualities with the parents' DNA but nevertheless a unique personal DNA, not found elsewhere, it cannot be repeated, replaced or substituted, ” he added. ENDS.



Caption: FOR LIFE: Lee beating the gong to officiate the congress as other dignitaries cheer on.









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